Emerging Welfare Project

International Strike Report (2022) emekcalisma.org/2024/05/01/int…

Alpkan Birelma’s book review of “The politics of the welfare state in Turkey: How social movements and elite competition created a welfare state”. (Erdem Yörük) University of Michigan Press. 2022. Social Policy & Administration onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sp…

“Turquie: un Etat social au service de l’autocratie” with an interview with Dr. Erdem Yörük evenement.ch/articles/turqu…

"Arjantin’in ‘Trump anı’": Arjantin’de pazar günü yapılacak ikinci tur başkanlık seçimi öncesi, @BirGun_Gazetesi tarafından EMW araştırmacılarından Dr. Fırat Duruşan'la yapılan röportaj: birgun.net/haber/arjantin…

“Die neuen populistischen Wohlfahrtsstaaten” (The new populist welfare states) by Erdem Yörük welt-sichten.org/artikel/41966/…

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Global Contentious Politics Dataset, a comprehensive and fully automatically curated resource of social movements, protests, and conflict: glocon.ku.edu.tr, @EmergingWelfare @caseworkshop

We invite you to explore the dataset and utilize it in your research and teaching. we encourage feedback and collaboration, as we see this launch not as an end but as the beginning of an ongoing dialogue within the academic community.

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Global Contentious Politics Dataset, a comprehensive and fully automatically curated resource of social movements, protests, and conflict, made available through our project website glocon.ku.edu.tr

Osman Mutlu and Ali Hürriyetoğlu presented their amazing talk on "Negative documents are positive: Improving event extraction performance using overlooked negative data". #RANLP2023 #NLProc

Erdem Yörük from Koç University presented his keynote talk on “Using Automated Text Processing to Understand Social Movements and Human Behaviour” at the CASE workshop co-located with RANLP 2023! #NLProc #RANLP2023

Once again, the wellbeing of the working classes depends of their militancy.

The strike wave is likely responsible for the rise of wages relative to the rate of inflation statista.com/statistics/135…

“Work stoppages in the United States this year could reach heights rarely seen in recent decades.” nytimes.com/interactive/20…